Zune: Brown is Beautiful

Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/18/0606:09 PM

[color:blue]Zune: I am brown -- I am invincible<br><br>Sales of Microsoft's MP3 player, Zune, have been disappointing, but don't blame it on the controversial decision to offer the device in the shade of brown, says Ultrabrown blogger Manish Vij.<br><br>White geek bloggers have been defecating all over the brown Zune, declaring that it looks like, well, a "brick of [censored]." A little digging around Technorati indicates that, yes, critical reaction has been less than favorable -- though it should be noted that according to available sales figures via Amazon, brown Zunes aren't selling anywhere nearly as badly as the white models. But Manish isn't having any of it: "This brown-is-dirty meme needs to be nipped in the bud," he declares.<br><br>Brown is an earth tone, the color of sourdough, pizza crust, cookies, chocolate, cinnamon, crepes, Cuban cigars, suede, corduroys, khakis, camouflage, spotted fawns, natural sugar, UPS, hipster tees, brown paper packages tied up with strings, the skins of potatoes and subcontinentals. When the Gorebot needed to be humanized, Naomi Wolf dressed him down in brown. D’Angelo and India.Arie wrote odes to brown.<br><br>Brown plays nice with sepia, red and green. Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am brown, I contain multitudes.<br><br>Right on! Say it loud -- Ultrabrown is proud.</font color=blue><br><br>This is from Salon.com, so I won't bother to link it.<br><br>____________________________________________________<br>Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,<br>But to be young was very heaven!

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/19/0606:45 AM

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/19/0607:34 AM

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>Which ultimately become, well... you know.<p><hr></blockquote><p><br>Zune? <br><br>____________________________________________________<br>Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,<br>But to be young was very heaven!

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/19/0607:42 AM

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/19/0607:43 AM

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Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/19/0608:03 AM

THAT'S funny!!! Perhaps some of us can adopt the moniker further?<br>Anyone planning on getting zune-faced on New Year's Eve?<br>Zune happens.<br>Now the zune'll hit the fan.<br>Zune on a stick.<br>Zune for brains.<br><br>- alec -

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/19/0608:12 AM

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/19/0608:32 AM

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/19/0609:22 AM

I like this part:<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>Brown is an earth tone, the color of sourdough, pizza crust, cookies, chocolate, cinnamon,<p><hr></blockquote><p><br>Yes, but he fails to mention not one of those examples is the same shade of brown as crap!<br><br><br><br>Hey I'm an F'n Jerk!®

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/20/0608:36 AM

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/20/0609:34 AM

Hi Bird, <br>thanks for posting that link from my blog. I thought it was funny too. <br><br>Cheers, <br>Liz Waldner<br>Prince George, British Columbia, Canada<br><br><br>Typing from her Laptop, Traveling the Web, Thinking of Field Trips.

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/20/0609:39 AM

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/20/0609:57 AM

Your very welcome, Liz I'm not good with my computer abilities[thus the link] and or understand even half of anything of how you got here...lol!!! I just love the fact that you found us...we have many folks here from Canada....stop by and visit. Cheers right back at you!!<br>“A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.”<br>Hugh Sidey<br><br>

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/20/0610:38 AM

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/20/0611:04 AM

I thought you'd never ask....<br>Unlike mammals, birds don't urinate. Their kidneys extract nitrogenous wastes from the bloodstream, but instead of excreting it as urea dissolved in urine as we do, they excrete it in the form of uric acid. Uric acid has a very low solubility in water, so it emerges as a white paste. This material, as well as the output of the intestines, emerges from the bird's cloaca. The cloaca is a multi-purpose hole for birds: their wastes come out of it, they have sex by putting their cloacas together, and females lay eggs out of it. [courtesy of google]<br>This Zune has started a new fad....instead of downloading songs folks are busy on forums discussing "Everything one needs to know about poop" Lol!!! <br><br><br><br>

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/20/0611:42 AM

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/20/0611:45 AM

Everyone Pees too perhaps that will be Bills color for the 2nd generation .....<br> Good lord man, that was funny, You, Michael, George and Steve have me laughing so hard....you have no idea lol!!!<br><br>

Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/20/0601:35 PM

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Re: Zune: Brown is Beautiful - 12/21/0603:19 PM

Hey gang, thanks for the welcome. <br>I found a video of Leo Laporte and how he hates the Zune. <br><br>Here's the link:<br>http://lizwaldner.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/leo-laporte-hates-the-zune/<br><br>Typing from her Laptop, Traveling the Web, Thinking of Field Trips.